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Army Adapts Aircraft EW To Protect Tanks: BAE RAVEN
« on: February 23, 2019, 12:16:43 pm »
 Army Adapts Aircraft EW To Protect Tanks: BAE RAVEN

Will high-tech hardware developed to protect aircraft translate to the mud and dust of ground combat?
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on February 21, 2019 at 3:56 PM


WASHINGTON: As the Army races to modernize against the Russian threat, it’s adapting countermeasures used on aircraft to protect its armored vehicles from anti-tank missiles. Systems like BAE’s RAVEN jammer, which won a recent Army “rodeo,” could be a lot more effective than just bolting on another layer of armor on already overloaded vehicles — if the contractor can make what originally an airborne system rugged enough to function in in the mud, dust and clutter of ground combat.

IMI’s Iron Fist launcher, shown here, shoots down incoming anti-tank rockets and missiles.

We’re talking high-tech hardware here. RAVEN is a “soft kill” jammer that tricks missiles into missing. It would part of a second wave of upgrades to Army vehicles, following the Israeli-made “hard kill” systems – which physically shoot missiles out of the air – that the service is already urgently fielding. The Army wants both types for maximum protection.

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